In this notebook we conduct exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) on the datasets for our studies of concepts of mental life, in which each participants judged the various mental capacities of a particular target entity. We analyze datasets for adults and children from each of our five field sites: the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.
This notebook contains the results presented in the main text, in which we use Pearson correlations with our three-point response scale (no = 0, kinda = 0.5, yes = 1); see supplemental analyses for a version of these analyses treating kinda = yes = 1 and using tetrachoric correlations.
country n
US 127
Ghana 150
Thailand 150
China 136
Vanuatu 148
Total 711
country n
US 117
Ghana 150
Thailand 152
China 131
Vanuatu 143
Total 693
See All samples, below.
US ADULTS
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.5114648 0.4805622
F2 0.5114648 1.0000000 0.5376676
F3 0.4805622 0.5376676 1.0000000
US CHILDREN
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.3031865 0.4334098
F2 0.3031865 1.0000000 0.4856172
F3 0.4334098 0.4856172 1.0000000
GHANA ADULTS
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.2725881 0.3444798
F2 0.2725881 1.0000000 0.2558207
F3 0.3444798 0.2558207 1.0000000
GHANA CHILDREN
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.5790820 0.1747165
F2 0.5790820 1.0000000 0.3854114
F3 0.1747165 0.3854114 1.0000000
THAILAND ADULTS
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4142881 0.3218404
F2 0.4142881 1.0000000 0.4161488
F3 0.3218404 0.4161488 1.0000000
THAILAND CHILDREN
F1 F2 F3 F4
F1 1.000000000 0.54189979 0.1468730 -0.008909088
F2 0.541899792 1.00000000 0.3169020 0.092978779
F3 0.146873030 0.31690205 1.0000000 0.269117295
F4 -0.008909088 0.09297878 0.2691173 1.000000000
CHINA ADULTS
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4590388 0.6187141
F2 0.4590388 1.0000000 0.3703614
F3 0.6187141 0.3703614 1.0000000
CHINA CHILDREN
F1 F2 F3 F4
F1 1.0000000 0.51249526 0.3245885 0.25786749
F2 0.5124953 1.00000000 0.1524842 0.07635739
F3 0.3245885 0.15248416 1.0000000 0.13450834
F4 0.2578675 0.07635739 0.1345083 1.00000000
VANUATU ADULTS
F1 F2
F1 1.000000 0.687325
F2 0.687325 1.000000
VANUATU CHILDREN
F1 F2 F3
F1 1.0000000 0.3116574 0.5189923
F2 0.3116574 1.0000000 0.3362370
F3 0.5189923 0.3362370 1.0000000